On Wednesday 28 July 2004 10:02 pm, J Latham wrote: > Hi All ... > > This past weekend I "built" my first computer ... A nervewracking > experience for a newbie but I'm pleased to say nearly everything went > smoothly (and was easier than expected - esp with Mandrake 10.0 - Took a > few attempts to get WinXP loaded). The only problem now is that I can't > get the onboard network card to work with Mandrake 10.0 ... Here are some > specs: > > Mobo: MSI K8N Neo Platinum > Chipset: nVIDIA nForce3 250Gb > CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3000+ > LAN controller: same as chipset note (nVIDIA nForce3 250Gb controller)
Its all about the Nforce3 controller. There is no Open Source driver yet, but NVidia has released theirs: http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_nforce_1.0-0275 Let us know how it works. When I got my Nforce2 mobo it was only one release to an open source driver, and happyness. Rob -- Linux Desktop user since 2000, Home networker since shortly after. Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/
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